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Me hoping it was a good angel, I did a lot of research. I have changed my mind about it many times.
I was afraid of course, it wasn't small, and it touched my shoulder, and it didn't feel soft, but I thought that God is with me and whatever happens happens, so I just stood there, and asked what it wanted, I was curious too obviously. I didn't take my eyes off it.
Another thing is that I felt like something was coming for a little while. I was sitting down, it came from behind. I was drinking my first rum and coke. I feel something, I look at my shoulder, see a shadow and stand up and turn around. Then it stands back. I walk back a couple steps.
Could a bad spirit had been prowling and my guardian angel protected me, and I just happen to see it?
It's possible, I would say.
Comment: the idea of a "guardian angel" has been popularized through our culture, but in reality, we have myriad spirits working and interacting around us.
Spiritually, there is a spectrum between the poles of good and evil. In the human world, so far, only Christ is absolutely good. The rest of us are always relatively good and relatively evil. (Rebirth through Christ is like a doorway that opens a spiritual realm of goodness under God's sovereignty, but until the claim on our flesh is liquidated (2nd coming), we have to make conscious effort to move closer to the pole of absolute goodness, where Christ dwells.)
If we have a good spiritual life of faith, practice goodness, then there will be many good spirits around us (the Holy Spirit manifests via good spirits), including angels.
Sometimes, intrusion into realms are planned and executed: good spirits/angels or the holy Spirit bringing grace that liberates and lifts, but also evil spirits attacking and taking advantage of perceived weaknesses.
Your description of how you dealt with the experience makes me think you handled it well. I suspect that if you develop a regular prayer life your spiritual senses may open up more (in a good way).
Also, the experience of fear (afraid) could simply be because of a lack of experience and encountering something that was new. I had a similar response the first time I felt a spiritual presence as a boy.
I learned angels where created in one moment. Every person has one assigned to them before birth. The moment they where created the had to decide is they served or not, they had to have faith in that moment. Satan chose not to. At that very moment the two sides battled and the beatific vision was revealed to them, and their position solidified when Michael yelled "WHO LIKE GOD".
After that the demons and the good angels surrender their will and cant take their choice back. After learning THE truth, faith is no longer possible.